Medicaid Expansions

An issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation explains the new rules governing the way that states determine eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP under health reform, and specifically the changes in how income and household size are defined in order to determine eligibility for those programs as well as for the Exchange premium credits.

The Subcommittee on Health has scheduled a hearing on Thursday, June 2, 2011. The hearing is entitled “PPACA’s Effects on Maintaining Health Coverage and Jobs: A Review of the Health Care Law’s Regulatory Burden.”

To achieve seamlessness between Medicaid and the state health benefit exchange, the author has outlined five key areas that state policymakers need to coordinate when setting up New York's exchange.

This policy brief provides an update on the estimates of the uninsurance rate in Massachusetts as of Spring 2010.

New findings from the 2010 Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey indicate the need for covering more young adults.

This issue discusses the responsibilities, opportunities, and challenges for state Medicaid agencies in implementing programs to encourage providers to adopt electronic health records, focusing on the Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Program.

New Mexico' s telehealth Project ECHO (Extension for Community Health Care Outcomes) could become a national model for serving chronically ill patients in underserved areas.

May 20, 2011 the Alliance for Health Reform held a briefing on how to manage the "churning" of individuals in and out of public programs so that care is not interrupted.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has proposed limits on enrollment for the Family Care program that services the elderly and disabled as one way to fill a projected state budget shortfall of $3 billion.

Historically health care insurance programs have fallen short of enrollment goals. This issue brief outlines five strategies policymakers could utilize to ensure successful enrollment when the insurance coverage expands in 2014 under the ACA.